Author Interviews

I adore a good podcast. I first discovered them when I was having trouble sleeping - I’m your classic overthinker - and over the last few years, rather than lie ...

Stuck in a job that you don’t like but resigned to the fact that now may not a good time to search for a new one? The good news is ...

As her new book, “Modern Day Shaman: Find A Deeper Connection With Life” is published, Sarah Negus shares with us five tips for starting your own practice of shamanic journeying. ...

Indie author L. M. Allen has just published Lay Me Bare, the first in a planned trilogy of erotic romance novels that dare to break with the tired conventions of ...

I’m a university drop-out – I’d always dreamed of being a writer as a kid, so going to uni to study English Literature seemed like a natural stepping stone into ...

The year 2020 was a painful and frustrating reminder to many of us that even the best laid plans can be wrecked by unforeseen circumstances. Although I’ve had dark moments ...

Whether you're a massive fan of Christmas, an average lover of the holiday, or a Scrooge, everyone has at least one festive tradition, right? From films to food, Mike Craven, author ...

As we get ready to say goodbye to 2020, now is the perfect time to start thinking about our intentions for the new year, and what we want to manifest.  ...

I am old school, I don’t like talking about money. My parents said that was crass. However, I’m certain the only reason they didn’t mention that talking about sex is ...

Meet Sonia Beldom, the 57 year old from North London who went from producing TV shows such as “An Idiot Abroad” with Ricky Gervais, Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant to ...

I was born in The Bishop’s Avenue - aka Millionaire’s Row in Hampstead. It was a nursing home converted from a house formerly owned by Gracie Fields. I loved to ...

It’s coming up for January and we’re getting ready to make decisions about the year ahead, so how do you make a decision that’s right for you? Are you thinking ...

When I started writing Dear Lina in 2016, I was 29. I had recently come out and I was thinking about the future. Brexit and the election of Trump in ...

If raising young kids was a puzzle to you, then raising teens is the Rubik’s Cube of parenting: it’s practically impossible to solve unless you know the tricks. Here’s some ...

When I was a student, my English literature lecturer suggested we all skip one week of university and go and sit at the Adelaide Writer’s Festival. It’s one of the ...

Being asked to write about how I spent lockdown isn’t a scenario I would’ve ever believed possible this time last year. To me, the word lockdown back then was a ...

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Author Alex Dahl has kindly selected Female First to reveal the cover of her new book Cabin Fever. Hauntingly dark, with the sinister byline ’As her therapist you know her darkest ...

On 11th August 2020 Joe Biden audaciously named California’s Senator, Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants (Professor Donald Harris from Jamaica and Shyamala Gopalan, a scientist and activist from India), ...

Astrology is an amazing art and science that is as old as any culture with written historical records and likely precedes even those. Its usage spans from the purely predictive, ...

During the first UK Lockdown, from March 2020, I was working as a frontline NHS junior doctor, in A&E and the acute medical wards. I caught Covid, I was worried ...

1. I never wanted to write a tell-all memoir. When I lived in London, I started a blog about food. Gradually, I began weaving in lessons about love. But I ...

Professor Michael Gleeson, a world authority on exercise, metabolism and nutrition - and author of new weight loss book, The Pick ‘n Mix Diet tells us what we need to ...

Sunday Times bestselling author Nancy Revell talks about her experiences of writing a wartime novel during the present Covid-crisis. During the five years I have been writing The Shipyard Girls ...